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Hokitika Guardian, 16 July 1923, Page 3

BRUTAL ASSAULT. FOUR MEN SENTENCED. (Received this day at, 9.45 a.m.) LONDON. July 15. Patrick M( ana-pie, William Fitzg,>ra Id. .lame- .Maxwell ami John l.vueli have been sentenced ill Dublin to ten years’ impi isiiiimeiu lor a brutal assault oil an elderly bed-ridden woman. They entered the house for the purpose "I robbery and tm'ced the barrel of a revolver (loan her tiiroal and left her for dead. The Judge said : "Tim ofl'cli.-e tran(■eiids in humility anything 1 have ever heard of or known." He ordered Ihe fir-1 three to receive twenty lashes before commencing their terms ol imprisonment.

Speaking in the il'ii-e io-nay Alt AY. D. I.ysna.r (Gisborne) said there wove leaks in Lake AYtiikareinottna. and

•great quantities r.f water were getting away umlorgiomul. One could hear tin, water rushing away. He had a. letter from the chairman of the Rower Board, who stated that they had con--nltoJ a lay engineer, who estimated that the leaks could he plugged at a cost of tIO.BOO. If litis were done it would add another 40.000b.p. He suggested that the Government should do the necessary work before the machinery w;us put iu. The Holt J. G. Coates put quite a different complexion on the leak. He said the amount of power available front The lake was something like 90.000 h.p.. and Mr Barry's scheme provided for only 40,000. so there was an ample, margin, apart from the trilling leakage. As ti matter of fact the leaks had existed from time immemorial. It the scheme when developed lowered the let el of tlte lake to any appreciable extent, wliieh was open to doubt, the leaks would he all the more easily got at, if it were at all possible to stop such natural exits. "I would terj much like.” said Air Coates, “to meet the engineer who could stop such leaks for £lo,ooo.’’